My stampin' up! blog - Stamping Scene

Hello and welcome to my blog. I'm an independent Stampin' Up! demonstrator in the UK and love sharing my passion for paper crafting and Stampin' Up! products. Thank you for visiting I hope to see you again soon. Zoe x

Wednesday 7 March 2012

Stampin' Up! Spring Mini - so lovely


What more could you want to adorn a card, gift box or cloth bag than one of these beautiful Blossom Party Die flowers.  Yes it's a Stampin' Up! exclusive die and can be used on over 50 different types of material including fabric hence the reference to decorating cloth bags or making fabric flower brooches.

The die is available from Stampin' Up! and in is the current Spring Mini Catalogue.  By it now before the end of March along with a couple of other trinkets and you'll get yourself a free stamp set or pack of very yummy everyday enchantment designer series paper.   The die is very reasonably priced at £16.50 and will bring you hours of die cutting fun.  I've teamed it up with the Stampin' Around standard wheel Musical Notes and a fitting sentiment from Thank You Kindly.   A little bit of smudging with a sponge dauder, curling with my paper piercer handle ,  pearls and you're there! What could be simpler. 

There's also this version of the same card which I intended for One Layer Wednesday Challenge, but I only realised today that the W in OLW stood for Wednesday so I'm to late to offer my cream base, black ink with a bit of bling card, but I'd still like to share it with you.  Ornate Flowers provides surprisingly the flower, the sentiment is the same and having stamped the image I masked it with paper and then used the Stampin' Around wheel.  This time rhinestones added dimension to the centre of my flower and covered the challenge requirement of 'bling'. 
You can see other cards using the Stampin Around Musical Notes Wheel.
Hope you are not having such a scatty day as me!
Zoë x

Supplies
Cardstock - poppy parade, naturals ivory
Ink - basic black, poppy parade
stamps - ornate flowers, stampin around wheel musical notes, thank you kindly
accessories - pearls, rhinestones

8 comments:

An Occasional Genius said...

Can't beat a bit of smudging Zoe!! These are both utterly gorgeous & remind me why the music wheel was on my wish list! xx

Pegcraftalot.blogspot.com said...

Love that music wheel Zoe, hope the stampin' craft room is going well x see you soon x

Kim S said...

These are the same but SO different...I love the layered, red flower but your use of masking on the second card is equally beautiful!

sue w. said...

Hi Zoe, love that flower die and the music wheel is ace.
Hugs Sue W.

Victoria said...

Beautiful cards Zoe. I too am in love with the beautiful blossom flower die. I never ould have thought to team it with the Musical notes wheel like you have, it looks fab!!
Hugs, Victoria ~x~

Victoria said...

Love both of these Zoe but the one with the red flower is so striking
Great new look blog by the way
Love
Victoria
x

Zoe Tant said...

Thanks for the lovely comments ladies. So glad you like them both. Zx

Sara said...

Love the bright flower on top of the music notes. Great idea. Thanks for stopping by and offering congratulations. Look forward to seeing you at the reception if not before :-)

Sara xx